A Bibliography for Teachers & Librarians: There are a lot of published books that share lists of mentor texts for teaching writing; the book at right is one example. This page at WritingFix--we believe--is much more thorough than just about every book in print we've found. We've spent almost ten years creating the list of books below.

During our Northern Nevada teacher workshops, we ask teachers to bring favorite mentor texts and share how they use them during their writing instruction. Some of the ideas proposed by teacher participants become online lessons here at WritingFix. This page contains a list of the mentor texts for which we currently have on-line lessons and prompts that you can access. You can also access the lessons and prompts by clicking on the lesson link in the parentheses.

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Two Additional Mentor TextBibliographies to Check Out

In Northern Nevada, the NNWP sponsors annual collaborative projects among teachers. The goal of these collaborative projects is to create a print resource that can be used in future workshops and inservice classes.

The two most popular guides that have been created through these collaborations are available for purchase from the NNWP's Publications Page. If you'd like to see which mentor texts are cited in either of these guides, click the link below the pictures of the guides' covers:

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